dear all,
in the event that you can lay your hands on some un-allocated monies from
your travel and training budgets, the 'Transforming Culture in the Digital
Age' conference looks like a good event to be part of. The conference will
be held in Tartu, Estonia from 14-16 April. Tartu is a couple of hours by
train from capital Tallin and there are flights too.
When Estonia was under Soviet occupation, Tartu was the place of 'exile' of
the great and humane literary critic, philosopher and semiotician Mikhail
Bakhtin, We owe Bakhtin a sharpened understanding of 'dialogical
imagination' and 'polyphonic narration'. Bakhtin's philosophical and
critical engagement with these concepts underpins much of today's thinking
on multiple voices and user involvement in museum display. So going to Tartu
feels a bit like a pilgrimage ...(a pilgrimage I'll undertake for a second
time in twenty years)....
.... and I must say, there is something intellectually alluring in the
conference aims, something deliciously refreshing, hopefully dialogical
....
More about the conference on http://www.transformingculture.eu/en
I will be giving a talk there on '*Accessible Digital Culture for Disabled
People*' - exploring this new facet of polyphonic culture in greater
detail. This is as part of a European project on accessible digital culture
we are undertaking in partnership with the HCI Research Group at the
University of York (about which more later).
best wishes,
Marcus
Marcus Weisen, Director, Jodi Mattes Trust for Accessible Digital Culture
*www.jodiawards.org.uk*
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